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Scarcely were the bravoes seated, when Cinthia (for that was the

young woain summoned to the door; and the company

was now increased by t-couest from head to foot

"Now, then," cried one of these, who had conducted Abellino to this

respectable society, "let us see what you are like"

As he said this he raised a burning laht of its flaive ly hound it is!"

She turned hastily round, and hid her face with her hands Dreadful

was the look hich Abellino repaid her compliment

"Knave," said one of the banditti, "Nature's own hand has marked you

out for an assassin--come, prithee be frank, and tell us how thou

hast contrived so long to escape the gibbet? In what gaol didst

thou leave thy last fetters? Or fro to say adieu?"

Abellino, folding his arms--"If I be such as you describe," said he,

with an air of authority, and in a voice which made his hearers

tremble, "'tis for me all the better Whate'er ht to find fault with it, since